Archive for the ‘ Best Practices ’ Category

The Art of Home Care Staffing

A major reason home care clients prefer licensed home care agencies is that agency’s ability to find just the right caregiver for that client. In additional to such practical matters as schedule availability and skills, a good home care agency will do their best to match personality traits. This increases the likelihood that a client and caregiver will "click" and the resulting match will be a good relationship based upon mutual trust and respect. [ READ MORE ]

Home Care Referral Services: Less Choice, More Cost

Seniors and families looking for home care have many excellent resources to help in their search. For Washington State the Washington Private Duty Association (WAPDA) at www.wapda.org has an excellent website. However referral agencies that charge a fee to a home care agencies present the consumer with less choice and more cost. We urge professionals to develop their own trusted lists of home care agencies[ READ MORE ]

Seniors Who Hoard

Hoarding is a complex problem. With seniors who hoard, a caregiver from a licensed home care agency can provide monitoring and often prevent the problem from becoming a dangerous health hazard. [ READ MORE ]

Independent Private Duty Home Care Agencies & Franchises Part 2

Part one of this post talked about the benefits of the franchise model in private duty home care. This post discusses the disadvantages[ READ MORE ]

4 Steps to Establishing Trust with a Home Care Client

Establishing trust with a new home care client is crucial to a good long-term relationship with the family[ READ MORE ]

Two Tales of Home Care Supervision

One of the topics at the 2008 annual conference of the Washington Private Duty Association (WAPDA), was how to provide home care aides with effective supervision. Presenting at the session were top administrators from two well-established Puget Sound area private duty home care agencies. The two presenters couldn’t have been more different in their approaches [ READ MORE ]

Senior Home Care is a Family Affair

In senior home care, who is the client? The answer’s obvious, isn’t it?  It would seen the client is the person a home care agency cares for. The client is the older person who needs help staying at home independently, or the disabled client who needs help with transfers and household chores. Washington State law [ READ MORE ]

Quiet Angel with a Vacuum Cleaner

Seniors wanting in-home caregivers most often want a good relationship with their caregiver as well as the specific tasks a caregiver was hired to perform[ READ MORE ]

David Lawrence

David Lawrence is the CEO of Family Resource Home Care, a leading provider of senior home care services in the Northwest.